New Republic - Elon Musk is starting to clash with Donald Trump’s team on some of the president-elect’s key issues, especially tariffs. The Washington Post reports that Musk is trying to persuade Trump regarding Cabinet picks and economic policy, drawing the ire of the president-elect’s other advisers. On Saturday, Musk praised Argentine President Javier Milei in a post on X for cutting tariffs in his country. The central pillar of Trump’s economic program is raising tariffs.
In another post later on Saturday, Musk endorsed
Howard Lutnick, co-chair of Trump’s transition team and CEO of
financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, for the post of treasury
secretary over hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, who is in the running
for the position. Both posts from Musk aren’t going over well with the
rest of Trump’s team.
“People are not happy,” one person in contact with campaign officials told the Post anonymously. Musk’s posts seemed to reflect that the tech CEO and world’s richest man was acting like a “co-president” and beginning to overstep his role, the person added.
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